Artist Quotes · Page 395

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have…

— Teena Marie

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never…

— Matt Bomer

As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist.

— Paul Gilbert

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

— Pablo Picasso

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

“We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

— E. M. Forster

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas…

— Edward Hopper

Actually, it's the beauty of independent music that the artist can feature in his own videos and be the face of it.…

— Guru Randhawa

“understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might…

— Megan Chance

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge…

— Richard Eyre

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my…

— Gustav Klimt

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects…

— John Ruskin

“Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is…

— Seth Godin

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative…

— Edward Hopper

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same…

— Frank Oz

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

— Angelina Jolie

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of…

— William Blake

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

— Charlie Haden

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

— Jeff Koons

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

— Jacob Epstein

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

— Alun Hoddinott

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

— Rumaan Alam

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

— Claudia Lee

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

— Charley Pride

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of…

— Elbert Hubbard

“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”

— Clive James

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

— Hartley Coleridge

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

— Alexej von Jawlensky

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

— Leo Steinberg

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

— Joan Miro

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

— Raphael Soyer

I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.

— Werner Bischof